White Widow and Hindu Kush grow with Amazon system

[Shovelhandle]

that's a darn handy grow basin, Bub! Very space efficient then.

[Puffzter]

Wow, I did not know that! It seems right, though. But is 2-3 days enough for the plant to dispose (or use might be a better word) all the nutrients it's been fed?

Yes they are fine after 3 days. In an aero 100% of the nute uptake stops the very second the water is changed and plants don't store nutes. In their normal enviroment the storage is the medium in which nute levels are relative constant so they don't need nor have capacity to store up on stuff like that for much more than a short period of time.
You can see leaves starting to loose its color in 12 hours in an aero if you stave them. Coco and even more so soil needs to be flushed pure of nutes or as clear as possible before you actualy start starving the plants but you will bever be able to get them as "clean" as in a mediumless hudro/aero grow.

that's a darn handy grow basin, Bub! Very space efficient then.

Yes the Amazon is an amazing system but needs a few tweaks mainly to keep the roots cool enough.
Its about 30*30 inches and takes 4, 8, 16 or 32 plants depending on what lid you buy it with. I grow with a 16 plant lid.
Price is about US$250 so very cheap as well.
There is a double lid version measuring about 60*30 inches also.

Puffzter

[wannabreeder]

Yes they are fine after 3 days. In an aero 100% of the nute uptake stops the very second the water is changed and plants don't store nutes. In their normal enviroment the storage is the medium in which nute levels are relative constant so they don't need nor have capacity to store up on stuff like that for much more than a short period of time.
You can see leaves starting to loose its color in 12 hours in an aero if you stave them. Coco and even more so soil needs to be flushed pure of nutes or as clear as possible before you actualy start starving the plants but you will bever be able to get them as "clean" as in a mediumless hudro/aero grow.

Well, that makes alot of sense! Now I regret I bought an NFT and not a aero, hehe. But I think I would have temperature issues in the water so I think I'll have to wait until I have another flowering chamber...

[Puffzter]

Well, that makes alot of sense! Now I regret I bought an NFT and not a aero, hehe. But I think I would have temperature issues in the water so I think I'll have to wait until I have another flowering chamber...

Well it's not all better.
Temperature as you say is a biggie. I have ordered material to solve that once and for all now. At the moment it's ok but it's winter in Sweden now so cool air is easy to get hehe.
What I will do is hook up 2 big bubblers and one small bubbler to an airpump and run the small one in the cloner and the 2 large ones in the Amazon system. This will make it possible for me to feed the reservoirs cool air from floorlevel outside the growtent and that should take care of any problems with that except a month in the middle of the summer but I plan to run lights on during nighttime then so I think I'm in the clear now.

The other problem with an aero is that they are nervous. Whatever you do will hit the plants fast and hard so you better do it right.

The benefits are obvious. Plants vegg fast like mad and are easy to max out in bloom if you keep roots healthy and pay close attention to the meters and chemistry of the nutemix.

I am Frankenstein!
A drop here, some bubbles there. A bat wing and the head of a dead cat and they make sweet dope.

[Puffzter]

Some pictures.Everything is going as planned. Didn't manage to replace two slots in the system before I had to flip to 12/12 so I am running 14 plants. 2 of those 14 were replaced close to the flip so they have not vegged more than a tiny bit. Gonna be interesting to see what they will produce compared to same genetics properly vegged.I also got a beautiful clone of Papaya from a fellow grower together with a test smoke of it. Papaya is a sweet smelling and tasting indica that has great benefits for me as I also use MJ against a constant pain. This one numbed that out almost completelly.
pH 5.4-5.7
temp 27 (celsius)
humidity 35-45%
root temp 17.5-19.5 (celsius)
ppm : 1100

Pics:



Clones in the aero-cloner.
My
new Papaya, gonna be trained into a Bonzai mother.



Puffzter

[Puffzter]

New small update.

Amazon with the widows.


Bad pic of some flowers:


Cloning area with WW mom closest, Papaya getting the Bonzai treatment to become a mother, propagator and some jiffies with clones in. All under a 125W CFL in a 2*2 area.


Puffzter

[Ryder666]

An update please?